China Tracking - John Bryan Starr: Continuing the Revolution: The Political Thought of Mao. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. 366. $20.00.) - Ly Singko: The Fall of Madam Mao. (New York: Vantage Press, 1979. Pp. 136. $6.50.) - Samuel S. Kim: China, the United Nations, and World Order. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii, 581. $32.50.)

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-415
Author(s):  
Peter R. Moody
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Revolution

scholarly journals A Transition of Internationalisms: Britain, the United States, and the Formation of the United Nations Information Organization during World War II

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Giles Scott-Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Information ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Agency ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Information Office (UNIO), dating from 1942, holds the distinction of being both the first international agency of the embryonic UN network and the first to hold the United Nations label. Run from 1942 to 1945 from two offices in New York and London, these two were merged at the end of World War II to form the UN Information Organisation, and subsequently transformed into the Department of Public Information run from UN headquarters in New York. This article adds to the history of the UN by exploring the origins and development of the UNIO during 1940–41, when it was a British-led propaganda operation to gather US support for the allied war effort. It also examines the UNIO from the viewpoint of the power transition from Britain to the United States that took place during the war, and how this reflected a transition of internationalisms: from the British view of world order through benevolent imperialism to the American view of a progressive campaign for global development and human rights.

Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-143
Author(s):  
Silke Schwandt ◽  
László Kontler ◽  
Anu Korhonen ◽  
Marie-Christine Boilard ◽  
Johan Strang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Emotional Knowledge

Burkhard Hasebrink, Susanne Bernhardt, and Imke Früh, eds., Semantik der Gelassenheit: Generierung, Etablierung, Transformation [Semantics of detachment: Formation, establishment, transformation] (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2012), 319 pp.Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter, eds., Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), 240 pp.Ute Frevert, Monique Scheer, Anne Schmidt, Pascal Eitler, Bettina Hitzer, Nina Verheyen, Benno Gammerl, Christian Bailey, and Margrit Pernau, Gefühlswissen: Eine lexikalische Spurensuche in der Moderne [Emotional knowledge: In search of lexical clues in modernity] (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2011), 364 pp.Julia Harfensteller, The United Nations and Peace: The Evolution of an Organizational Concept (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011), 355 pp.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 351 pp.

scholarly journals Historical Failure or Political Realism? The 1956 Hungarian Revolution’s (Mis)Handling by the United Nations

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
András Nagy
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Member States ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Revolution

After nearly G5 years of the Hungarian 195G Revolution, several questions remained unanswered, mainly concerning the international responses to the Revolution and the brutal suppression of the revolt. The article examines the possibilities and the limitations of the international organization when two member states violate the Charter ofthe very organization,they are members of. Based on current archival research concerning recently declassified documents, the (mainly behind the scenes) activity and the (mainly demonstrative) passivity of the UN are analyzed and explained, without offering any excuse for the political pragmatism of the organization that was once built on moral principles.

From Principle to Right

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-106
Author(s):  
Adom Getachew
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Society ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
World Order ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah

This chapter turns to the United Nations, where anticolonial nationalists staged their reinvention of self-determination, transforming a secondary principle included in the UN Charter into a human right. Through the political thought of Nnamdi Azikiwe, W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and George Padmore, the chapter illustrates that this reinvention drew on a distinctive account of empire as enslavement. The emergence of a right to self-determination is often read as an expansion of an already existing principle in which anticolonial nationalists universalize a Westphalian regime of sovereignty. In contrast to this standard account, the chapter argues that the anticolonial account of self-determination marked a radical break from the Eurocentric model of international society and established nondomination as a central ideal of a postimperial world order.

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